cbs 5's elizabeth cook on the question, the answer, and the bigger picture. liz? >> reporter: well, dana, pelosi says she's staying on because there is still work to do. but then the temperature of the room changed, all because of a question that inferred it was time for the congresswoman to let younger folks have a chance. emily post taught us to never question or ask a woman about her age. apparently, this reporter didn't read her book. >> you're over 70. doesn't that prohibit younger leadership from moving forward? >> so you're suggesting that everybody step aside? >> i'm just saying, doesn't that delay younger leadership from moving forward? >> let's for a moment honor it as a legitimate question, although it's quite offensive, but you don't realize that, i guess. the fact is -- the fact is that everything that i have done in my -- i guess decade now of leadership is to elect younger and newer people to the congress. >> i think it's offensive, because it's often tailored toward women and there's a lot of male senators. >> reporter: she was just elected to the